<strong>Simple: </strong><p>Everest strives to be simple by design, coming with no pre-installed bloatware or spyware. Everest follows the UNIX philosophy whenever possible,</p>
<strong>Stable: </strong><p>Everest is designed to be as stable as possible. All base system programs are statically linked, and can be updated with git-controlled root filesystems.</p>
<strong>Fast: </strong><p>Glacier downloads program source code and compiles it locally on your system. The end result is an extremely fast and optimized package. Simply define</p>
<strong>Lightweight: </strong><p>Everest uses Busybox for its userland tools and init system, and musl for its standard C library. All of these tools are designed to be as lightweight as possible.</p>
<strong>Flexible: </strong><p>Everest supports highly customized installations. Want to replace Busybox init with systemd, openrc, runit, dinit, or s6? Or replace musl with uClibc or Glibc? All of these are</p>
<p>Glacier v4 is another complete overhaul of Glacier. This new release includes dependency resolution, multiple downloads, and a new, concise package format.</p>
<p>Since Glacier v4 uses a completely different package format, it is thus <strong>incompatible</strong> with all previous releases.</p>
<p>No time estimate has been given for this release.</p>
<p>The Everest website has been completely overhauled with a cleaner, sleeker look.</p>
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<newshead><strong>1/26/23 - System image builds nearly complete</strong></newshead>
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<p>A system image is coming together. This includes the toolchain We are still ironing out issues with Busybox's wget implementation, which fails to support https.</p>
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<newshead><strong>11/1/22 - System image builts have begun</strong></newshead>
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<p>Today, the team has begun compiling system images. All programs have compiled correctly, with the exception of the system toolchain. This is a very important component, and the system cannot function without it.</p>
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<newshead><strong>10/25/22 - Glacier v3 is released</strong></newshead>
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<p>After nearly 2 months of hard work, Glacier v3 is finally out. This release includes many stability improvements,</p>
<p>changes to the codebase to improve readability, and a new build system.</p>
<p>Everest now owns a domain. This allows us to host our own website, rather than using GitHub (which is owned by Microsoft). This gives</p>
<p>us more control over our work.</p>
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<newshead><strong>5/31/22 - Glacier v2 is released</strong></newshead>
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<p>Glacier v2 has been released. This version provides several improvements to the codebase, such as compressing everything to a single executable,</p>
<p>and removing the whole "enter package name" scheme.</p>
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